Re: [leafnode-list] setting users?

[jrd@xxxxxxxxxxxx (John R. Dennison)]

In previous mail, Brent J. Nordquist spouted...
> 
> On Fri, 7 Jan 2000, Cornelius Krasel wrote:
> 
> > > was wonder if there was a way to set this up so only certain users can use
> > > leafnode, say like a user name and password.
> > 
> > Not yet. I am planning to implement this. One question is where to store
> > the passwords.
> 
> May I suggest that whatever you do uses PAM, so that administrators can
> fit this into other schemes they're already using for other applications,
> if desired.

	PAM complicates things quite a bit in some cases, and I believe
	this case to be one of them.  It also limits code portability in
	that not all systems use PAM (most, in fact).  





							John


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